escape into the past, and abandon the ways of the future
there's too much media that is easier to access than ever before to be stuck with dealing with not being interested in the media of today

to make your life simpler, pick a year from before 2004 or so, and just watch two shows and play through two games considered classics, and see how you feel then

if you can't enjoy that, the problem is that you have anhedonia, rather than the present time being shit